xsoldier54

Once again, someone is mistaking their own opinions for facts. You are entitled to your opinions, just like everyone else on this board, but please don't try to pass them off as facts. Chan Gailey is a well respected coach around the league and if you knew anything about college football, you would understand that Georgia Tech is always second fiddle to Georgia. If you can't see the creativity in the offense thus far and the ability to put points on the board, then you haven't been watching. The problem with this team is the defense. They were bad last year against the run and they are worse this year. My problem with the coaching staff is not Gailey, as I believe his offense has shown some definite improvement over last year. My problem is with Edwards. The DC seems to be in over his head and his defense has been terrible outside of the first week. Like I said, I respect your opinion, but please don't mistake your opinions for facts.

So after four games, you have come to these brilliant conclusions. By the way, Trent Edwards sucks. Cutting him was absolutely the right thing to do. The offense has been 100 times better with Fitzpatrick running it and that should tell you something. The only thing that has changed on offense is the QB and they are now able to move the ball and put points on the board. The problem with this team is clearly the defense. When the defense can't get off the field, it not only allows the other team to put up points and put the game out of reach, it doesn't allow the offense to get into any kind of rythm. This defense was bad against the run last year and is worse this year. It is the players who lack talent, not the coach or GM. I wasn't expecting much this year, but my biggest dissappointment this year is with the D. I think Gailey has shown an ability to call plays that keep the opposing defense off balance and give this team a chance to score. Hopefully the D will get better, but I just don't see it happening. This will be a long season, but I think we have to wait until at least the middle of next year to decide if the plan to rebuild the D into a 3-4 is going to work.

Was anyone very surprised by the result today? This defense has demonstrated one thing so far this year. They cannot stop the run. They couldn't against GB, they couldn't against NE and they couldn't today. The Jets D is much better than NE's, so consequently, this team had no chance. They weren't going to put up 30 on the Jets and you had to know that the Jets would score some points, so the end result is pretty much exactly what should have happened. I was very optimistic as always, heading into the season, but this defense is really bad. It appears that the "experts" we all complain about were exactly right. This team will be lucky to win a game this year and they are almost a lock for the number one pick.

Unfortunately, even though I agree with your assessment of Rex Ryan, I just don't see the Bills beating the Jets this week. NY is a much better team defensively than New England and our defense is suspect at best. I don't see us putting up 30 again and until we can stop someone on defense, the only way to win is to outscore them. Don't see it happening against this D.

I have been a Bills fan since Day 1. I was 6 years old when my sister brought home the first team photo. She went to Buff State teacher's college and we lived in Hornell. I tacked it up on the wall in my bedroom and watched every game of the old AFL team. Over the years, there have been many low points and many bad teams. There have been good front office teams and bad ones as well. I agree that this current stretch is very discouraging and disheartening, but I do believe that eventually it will turn around. I don't believe we can expect much this year as the first three games have shown that we just aren't a very good team right now. What I will look for as a fan is improved performance and something to build on for next year. I think the offense performed much better last week, but the defense was horrendous. The rest of this year, I will look for some consistency in the offense and improvement on defense. I guess another thing that comes with age is the ability to put football in perspective. That same sister that brought me home the first Bills team photo is currently suffering from stage 4 cancer and the treatments are not working. She is suffering a great deal, so please Bills fans keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Enjoy the games as best you can, but remember, it's only a football game. Go Bills.

And what point exactly did I miss? I said "God Bless them for their charity." and talked about the pure joy they exhibit watching Bills games. That is exactly what the article was about. It talked about how much fun they have watching Bills games and the charity work they do. I mentioned both, so what exactly am I missing?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/twobillsdrive/1124920 Reading this puts things in perspective. Football is entertainment. It should be savored and enjoyed. The pure joy these people display are what football is all about. And God Bless them for their charity.

Wow. Pretty impressed with our own opinion, arent' we? While some of the things that you state are probable true, please keep in mind that your opinions are not facts. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but facts have to be proven. Stating that someone is no good simply has no merit, because there are no facts to back it up. So while I respect your opinions, they are worth no more than my own or those of anyone else on this board. Your opinion is not necessarily the truth, it's only your personal view.

I don't have to wait. I'll give it to you now. The Bills are head and shoulders better on offense without Trent Edwards. Fitzpatrick is an average QB and the offense was 10 times better last year with him than Edwards. Same result last week. The same offense, with the same O-line was 10 times better without Edwards at the helm. What more evidence do you need? This team clearly performs better on offense without Trent Edwards.

Sorry, but I just can't say thank you for this game. All it was was just another loss. And do you really think that NE feels bad about giving up 30 points? Believe me, they'll take the win. At no time did I feel like the Bills were gonna win this game. New England controlled the game and the Bills could not stop them. Was it more entertaining than last week? Sure. Was it a good effort? Far from it. The defense looked pathetic and Fitz threw two critical INT's. The sad thing is that this team has been so bad recently that a lot of fans were happy with this game. Not me. They still looked bad and they still lost. There are no such things as moral victories.

Today's game was like a microcosm of Ryan Fitzpatrick's entire career. He will make some plays for you. He will put some points on the board. He will also throw some bad interceptions like the two in the fourth quarter that ultimately will cost his team. That is the reason he has been a backup and that is the reason he performed the way he did today. Over the course of the rest of the season, he will help this team win some games and he will also be frustrating to watch at times. This game was entertaining to watch, but at no time did it appear to me that the Bills would win. Fitzpatrick is more fun to watch and more effective than Trent Edwards by a long shot, but in the end, the team still lost the game. Fitzpatrick wasn't the entire problem today, but I sure would have liked to have those two picks back.

While most fans have seen Trent Edwards and his pitiful play the past three years, I believe what Gailey has said about giving him a fresh start. He won the job in an open competition, which unfortunately didn't include any real games. He looked good in practice and the pre-season, but once the bullets were flying for real, it didn't take Gailey long to figure out that this was not the right guy for the job. As for Lynch, he was not fully healthy leading up to week one or he would have been the starter. Spiller will be used much as you saw on Sunday, on returns and in passing situations. He will get the occasional touch in the run game, but that will not be his primary role. As for Jackson, he still is not fully healthy. He got more reps on Sunday than he did the previous week and I expect that trend to continue. As his thumb gets better, he will see more reps. I believe the biggest problem with this offense has been addressed with the QB switch and we shall see. This team has a lot of holes and switching QB's will not fix them all, but I believe it is a step in the right direction.

I agree completely. While this team is a train wreck and I no longer expect much on Sundays, I grew up a Bills fan and have been one since the inception of this team in the 60's. There have been a few periods like this one where the team is really bad, but eventually things will turn around. As fans, we don't have to like what is going on with the team right now. In fact we shouldn't. But hang in there folks. As many have pointed out, it's only football and not really that important in the grand scheme of things. Hopefully at some point this year, the team will be more competitive. I believe that benching Edwards is the right move. It took Gailey exactly two games to figure out that he is not an NFL calibre QB. He may look good in practice and in pre-season when there is no pressure, but as soon as things really count, he folds like a bad poker hand. Fitz is not the answer long term, but he showed last year that he will be more decisive and more competitive than Edwards. The long term answer at QB is out there somewhere and hopefully we find him sooner rather than later. Until then, I will continue to tune in and hope for the best, but I won't really be that let down when things begin to fall apart on Sundays.

Not to be redundant, but the reason we couldn't run the ball was also because of Trent Edwards. Miami was stacking the box and daring him to beat them with his arm and he just isn't capable of doing that. Other teams know this and you can look for more of the same this coming Sunday. Until and unless TE learns to check down when there are 8 0r 9 men in the box and go to a three step drop with a slant over the middle, that is what we are going to get. After three years, he still hasn't figured this out. You can't run the ball when the defense is taking away the run. If you can't throw it in those situations, you are doomed to failure.

Not to be redundant, but the reason we couldn't run the ball was also because of Trent Edwards. Miami was stacking the box and daring him to beat them with his arm and he just isn't capable of doing that. Other teams know this and you can look for more of the same this coming Sunday. Until and unless TE learns to check down when there are 8 0r 9 men in the box and go to a three step drop with a slant over the middle, that is what we are going to get. After three years, he still hasn't figured this out. You can't run the ball when the defense is taking away the run. If you can't throw it in those situations, you are doomed to failure.

First, let me tell you that I agree with you about Edwards. Unfortunately, he is a good practice player. He looks great when there is no pressure and that is the only setting that Gailey has had an opportunity to witness until Sunday. Hopefully he will recognize sooner, rather than later that this guy can't play when it counts. As for Spiller starting, this one I can understand. Jackson was not 100%, practiced only a couple of times before this game and had some sort of plastic device on his thumb that limited his ability to hold the ball. I feel confident that he will see his fare share of snaps when healthy and may even be the starter. Spiller will do just fine when the opportunity presents itself. The problem in this game was Trent Edwards. Miami was stacking the box and challenging him to beat them with his arm and he just isn't capable of doing it. Look for more of the same from GB this Sunday and every other team until they switch QB's. Teams know that TE can't or won't throw the ball downfield, so they will continue to take away the run and challenge him to pass.

Obviously you are not watching the same games as everyone else. Noone here is crying, just stating facts. This guy is putrid. Are some of the other members of this team as well? Absolutely. It doesn't make Trent Edwards any better. He is terrible. He will never amount to anything in this league. Yes, it's true that the O-Line could be better, but even Fitzpatrick outperformed this guy last year and Fitz is no Joe Montana. We just need a competent QB and this team can compete. Face it. He is horrible.

From buffalobills.com "As much as Sunday’s performance on offense may have reminded fans of the struggles of the recent past, the players trust in their head coach and their offensive staff and believe consistency will come sooner rather than later." I've got news for them. As long as they have Trent Edwards lined up behind center, this offense will never get better. We will witness game after game of his ineptness, just like last year when he played and the year before. I was very patient this offseason and gave him the benefit of the doubt, but after watching him "perform" yesterday, I am more convinced than ever that this guy is a loser and will find ways to lose games, not win them. He was pathetic and he cannot run an offense. He is too slow to execute, and not just pass plays. It takes him forever to get the handoff to a running back and by the time he does, they are swarmed. Plays need to be executed in a crisp, clean and quick fashion, not the plodding style of Edwards. I was disgusted watching this game, after all of my optimism and hope, it took exactly one offensive series to show me that we were going to look very bad on this day.

Watching this game was like the movie Groundhog Day. I felt like I was watching the same exact game that I watched for most fo last year. The common thread? Trent Edwards. We will never win as long as this kitty is running our offense. At one point on that last possesion, he actually turned his head away from the pass rush and threw it right at the defender. Hard to complete a pass with your eyes closed. Absolutely pathetic.

This team will never win as long as Trent Edwards is quarterback. I have been very patient this offseason and have refrained from commenting, but he was pathetic today. He cannot run an NFL offense and will never be a QB that can lead his team to victory. When given opportunities to do so, he folds like a bad poker hand. Even at the beginning of the game on the first series, two passes batted back in his face and then a sack. Are you kidding me? On the opening drive? It was an omen of things to come. He just can't function under pressure. At one point on that final series, he turned his head away from the pass rush and threw it right into the defender. How can you possibly complete a pass with your eyes closed? I don't care who they would bring in, be it Levi Brown or Levi Strauss,this guy needs to go.

Just thought I would post this link. Seems like all of the "experts" at NFL.com predict that the Bills will suck. I personally don't expect a playoff team, but I would be willing to wager that they finish with a better record than last year. Here is the link. http://www.nfl.com/kickoff/story/09000d5d81228bfe/article/bills-hope-gailey-can-provide-muchneeded-change

These uniforms were never designed to be worn blue on blue or white on white. When the uniforms were unveiled, they showed the navy jersey with white pants and the blue pants with the white jerseys. Some idiot decided blue on blue was a good idea. At least if they went back to the original way the uniforms were supposed to be worn, they might look a bit better. I do agree though, a change would be better yet.

When you type in caps, that means you are yelling.

What a maroon! His rankings are laughable. Most of them are completely off base. He obviously has no idea what he is talking about. I want a job at SI.

Gotta disagree. His teams consistently get beat in transition. It is a trend that other teams have picked up on and he's had four years to correct it. It bit us again today and cost us the game. Also, he had some of his best players sitting on the bench to start the game. His tactics and failure to address the defensive deficiencies cost us many games over the years. Today they did not get beat by a better team, but a better coached one.